LogFAQs > #914794407

LurkerFAQs, Active DB, DB1, DB2, DB3, Database 4 ( 07.23.2018-12.31.2018 ), DB5, DB6, DB7, DB8, DB9, DB10, DB11, DB12, Clear

Topic List	Page List: 1
Topic	How can we help San Francisco's drug problem?
monkmith 12/27/18 6:49:07 PM #11:	Genocet_10-325 posted... monkmith posted... Genocet_10-325 posted... monkmith posted... force the drug companies that made billions off of overly prescribed opioids to spend those earnings investing on free treatment. Thats a fine idea, but its not going to stop the opioid epidemic. Pandoras box has been opened. wont stop it immediately, it will fix the issue eventually as long as it comes paired with limits on opioid prescriptions. They already have limited opioid prescriptions. I've been prescribed them for years due to a back injury but from what I hear if you aren't either dying or already on them its near impossible to get a doctor to prescribe them because theyre terrified your post points out the exact problem. prescribing them for take home use is beyond stupid. dentists hand the damn things out like candy after tooth extractions, orthopedic doctors write life long prescriptions, oncologists give them to cancer patients with no thought of what will happen to them. they should be strictly limited to either post surgical in hospital use or end of life palliative care. --- People die when they are killed. Quando il gioco e finito, il re e il pedone vanno nella stessa scatola <cite>monkmith posted [p:914794407] in How can we... [t:77338757]...</cite> <quote><cite>Genocet_10-325 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>monkmith posted...</cite> <quote><cite>Genocet_10-325 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>monkmith posted...</cite> <quote>force the drug companies that made billions off of overly prescribed opioids to spend those earnings investing on free treatment.</quote> Thats a fine idea, but its not going to stop the opioid epidemic. Pandoras box has been opened.</quote> wont stop it immediately, it will fix the issue eventually as long as it comes paired with limits on opioid prescriptions.</quote> They already have limited opioid prescriptions. I've been prescribed them for years due to a back injury but from what I hear if you aren't either dying or already on them its near impossible to get a doctor to prescribe them because theyre terrified</quote> your post points out the exact problem. prescribing them for take home use is beyond stupid. dentists hand the damn things out like candy after tooth extractions, orthopedic doctors write life long prescriptions, oncologists give them to cancer patients with no thought of what will happen to them. they should be strictly limited to either post surgical in hospital use or end of life palliative care. --- People die when they are killed. Quando il gioco e finito, il re e il pedone vanno nella stessa scatola</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Topic List	Page List: 1